Erwin Wilhelm Müller
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Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or Mueller) (June 13, 1911 – May 17, 1977) was a German
Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his student, Kanwar Bahadur, were the first people to experimentally observe atoms.[1]
Life and work
Müller was born in
nanometers
.
Müller married Klara Thüssing in 1939, and their only daughter Jutta was born in 1940. Due to the circumstances of war, he also worked at the Stabilovolt Company.
In 1947, he was appointed to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (renamed to
Iwan N. Stranski
. Here he developed the field ion microscope which, due to its resolution of 0.25 nm, was the first instrument used to observe atoms.
In 1950, he took a teaching appointment at the
Free University Berlin
.
Müller joined the faculty at
Washington D.C.
Honors
- National Medal of Science (1977)
- Achievement Award of the Instrument Society of America(1960)
- Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society(1972)
- Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal (de:Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Medaille) (1952)
- John Scott Medal of the City of Philadelphia (1970)
- External Scientific Member, Fritz-Haber-Institut(1957)
- Honorary Degree, Free University of Berlin (1968)
- Honorary Degree, University of Lyon
- Medard W. Welch Award 1971
- American Physical Society 1971
Selected bibliography
- Müller, E. W. (1951). "Das Feldionenmikroskop". Zeitschrift für Physik. 131 (1): 136–142.
- Müller, E. (1956). "Field Desorption". Physical Review. 102 (3): 618–624. .
- Müller, E.; Bahadur, K. (1956). "Field Ionization of Gases at a Metal Surface and the Resolution of the Field Ion Microscope". Physical Review. 102 (3): 624. .
- Muller, E. W. (1965). "Field Ion Microscopy". Science. 149 (3684): 591–601. S2CID 34915155.
- Muller, E. W.; Rendulic, K. D. (1967). "Field Ion Microscopical Imaging of Biomolecules". Science. 156 (3777): 961–963. S2CID 6471447.
References
- ^ Mitch Jacoby, "Atomic Imaging Turns 50", Chemical & engineering News, 83:48, pp. 13–16, 28 November 2005
- ^ "Biographical Memoirs Home". www.nap.edu.